Turn the Page Tuesdays program highlighted in OASD

11/08/2019 02:51PM
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By Steven Hoffman

David Hamburg, the
principal of the Jordan Bank School in Oxford, has been teaming up with members
of the community to read a bedtime story for children. The program is called
Turn the Page Tuesdays. So far, Hamburg has teamed up with a police officer, a
firefighter, a businessman, and a veterinarian. Hamburg introduces the guest
reader, does a quick interview, and then the bedtime story is read. The
segments are recorded and posted on Youtube for families to watch whenever they
want.

This program was highlighted
at the most recent school board meeting by Dr. Margaret Billings-Jones, the
Oxford Area School District’s assistant superintendent. She noted that the
bedtime story segments even include a Spanish translation to accommodate
families who primarily speak Spanish.

In other business at the
meeting, school board member Dr. Eric Owens offered a report on the recent meeting of the Chester County
School Boards Legislative Council. One of the main issues that the council
reviewed was the directive from Gov. Tom Wolf for the Pennsylvania Department
of Education to create new regulations for charter schools.

Superintendent David Woods
congratulated the five recent inductees into the Oxford Area High School Sports
Wall of Fame. The inductees at the 19th annual banquet were Dale Edwards,
Richard “Bud” Draper, Meredith Henry Musselman, Clyde Prigg, and Stacey Pinno
Maurer.

Woods also announced that
Oxford Borough, the Oxford Arts Alliance, and Oxford Mainstreet, Inc. are
teaming up to organize a flag design contest for people to submit entries of an
official flag for Oxford Borough. Submissions are already being accepted. The
deadline for submissions is Nov. 22. The winner will be selected after that.
There will be a $500 prize to the winner of the design contest.

The Oxford School Board’s
next meeting will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19 in the
Administration Building.